Post by jpena92 on Nov 8, 2010 22:02:46 GMT -5
The bases of the separation of powers come directly from greece but ironicly the reason of why they create a senate and with that the automatic separation of powers, was for the constant wars between the city-states in greece.
The Greeks needed to made a union beetween all the city-states to try to stop the civil wars between them.
Then the Romans took the greek idea and they develop a republic with a senate and two Consul's ) elected by the senate for 1 year who had the executive power (actually the consul only had the command of the army and some legislative powers but in fact he was only the commander an chief of the army) the senate had the legislative power and ther was a lot of other positions like Pretor (judiciary) Edil (an edil had like part of the judiciary power in fact the police and to look for the public order and also to organize public party's) and the Censor (who was in charge of public works and to name senate members) . Actually Rome was the most advanced nation in his moment.
After Octavius Augustus the goverment in Rome change to a Imperial republic, why I say that? Because the senate and all the other positions survived but with less power because the Emperor concentrate all the power in his person.
After the fall of Rome the ideals of a republic fall with Rome.
Ther was attempts to creat republics in the medieval age the problem was that the other kingdoms in Europe didnt want that.
The next more important republic after roman's was the English republic.
In 1707 Great britain became an union between Scotland and England and with it Great Britain a great advanced becuase was the first time when the parliament of two countrys were togheter forming a new country. The problem with the English parliament was that the positions in the lords chamber were by heritate and the commons chamber the mayority of them were wealthy people that means that the English parliament were a incomplete democracy because the power were reserved for the wealthiest.
But what happened in America first with USA and Canada.
That the poeple here were less suseptible to the censure metods in Europe of the Revolutionary Ideas and they fought for thier liberty because they knew that the first thing that a goverment need to be a goverment its the people acceptance.
The Greeks needed to made a union beetween all the city-states to try to stop the civil wars between them.
Then the Romans took the greek idea and they develop a republic with a senate and two Consul's ) elected by the senate for 1 year who had the executive power (actually the consul only had the command of the army and some legislative powers but in fact he was only the commander an chief of the army) the senate had the legislative power and ther was a lot of other positions like Pretor (judiciary) Edil (an edil had like part of the judiciary power in fact the police and to look for the public order and also to organize public party's) and the Censor (who was in charge of public works and to name senate members) . Actually Rome was the most advanced nation in his moment.
After Octavius Augustus the goverment in Rome change to a Imperial republic, why I say that? Because the senate and all the other positions survived but with less power because the Emperor concentrate all the power in his person.
After the fall of Rome the ideals of a republic fall with Rome.
Ther was attempts to creat republics in the medieval age the problem was that the other kingdoms in Europe didnt want that.
The next more important republic after roman's was the English republic.
In 1707 Great britain became an union between Scotland and England and with it Great Britain a great advanced becuase was the first time when the parliament of two countrys were togheter forming a new country. The problem with the English parliament was that the positions in the lords chamber were by heritate and the commons chamber the mayority of them were wealthy people that means that the English parliament were a incomplete democracy because the power were reserved for the wealthiest.
But what happened in America first with USA and Canada.
That the poeple here were less suseptible to the censure metods in Europe of the Revolutionary Ideas and they fought for thier liberty because they knew that the first thing that a goverment need to be a goverment its the people acceptance.
